Introduction and Foreword to The Grand Master / Little Master Book Series - By: Linda Lee Ratto, Ed.M.
I am pleased to support and boost into form the marvelous content in this Grand Master/Little Master interactive book series. I commend talented author Patricia Merker for your commitment to bring what I consider universal, peace-making principles into the laps of children and families. This inspired book series combines soul-honoring, character-building, personal-empowerment techniques with balanced mind/body/spirit activities. Patricia's stories gently guide readers into a lifestyle of lifelong spiritual learning.
This kind of out-of-the-box educational approach is fundamental to the internationally acclaimed NY Times best selling Conversations with God (CWG) series of books and is a mission of the School of the New Spirituality, Inc., the education nonprofit founded by author and spiritual leader Neale Donald Walsch. As a decade-long co-leader of SNS, Inc, I professionally endorse Patricia's books.
I have served youth and their adult leaders as a school principal, educational materials company owner and founder/owner of schools and after hours programs across the world. During my parenting and professional experience, I have seen few children's materials that bring the theme -- that we all have the Divine spark within us and we can make our dreams come true -- to life as clearly and with such ease as this GM/LM series. I believe in this new spirituality material so deeply that I volunteered and as stated above ultimately became an education leader of Neale Donald Walsch's CWG nonprofits. In the past decade our teams have developed numerous curricula materials and books that bring again, universal yet freshly new spirituality principles into daily life. To find a like-minded, like-hearted teacher such as Patricia, makes my heart sing - and our next generation(s) need all the books and hands-on discovery activities we can develop to bring this other fresh way of seeing God into reality now. And we all know how much creative guidance our children will need in the next decades.
It is beautiful and comforting to experience an active relationship with the Divine as choicemakers and creators with God of our dreams-come-true. The GM/LM series guides children and their families with skillful, playful fun into seeing God as our partner in life. Patricia masterfully brings story into easy living action that articulates in simple and easy-to-live ways how to create a deeply self-inspired AND Divine-inspired lifestyle. This kind of education is and will continue to change the world because it taps and allows the inherent gifts of our youth to come into new and unique form - new solutions to our humanity's ills!
As I see it and in the work I do with Patricia and beyond, it is time to move beyond the field of right and wrong-doing to an honoring of youth and ourselves. Judgment is no longer working for us as a species, as individual souls. The neverending frontier is within us all, and it is high time that we explore the Oneness we all have with the Divine. And I see this method of seeing God as a foundational way to create peace - from the inside and then out into the world through collaborations anew. Deeply knowing one's own power in concert with the Almighty and with those around us can and will always build a powerful creative consciousness that can forever be chockfull of love, joy, and wisdom. The GM/LM series brings this educational frontier to right into the laps of children and their families. Patricia's stories move our lives into the space beyond religion, a place where we may live peace and our own dreams-come-true together - every single day at every conscious choice we choose. How thrilling for us all!
I'd like to highlight in a concise summary, key principles that the Grand Master/Little Master books bring to life. These foundational beliefs hold inherent power which any parent, grandparent, teacher and all youth professionals may utilize in their work and play with young people to nurture and foster healthy, joyful, loving, honored-for-who-they-are souls:
I am pleased to support and boost into form the marvelous content in this Grand Master/Little Master interactive book series. I commend talented author Patricia Merker for your commitment to bring what I consider universal, peace-making principles into the laps of children and families. This inspired book series combines soul-honoring, character-building, personal-empowerment techniques with balanced mind/body/spirit activities. Patricia's stories gently guide readers into a lifestyle of lifelong spiritual learning.
This kind of out-of-the-box educational approach is fundamental to the internationally acclaimed NY Times best selling Conversations with God (CWG) series of books and is a mission of the School of the New Spirituality, Inc., the education nonprofit founded by author and spiritual leader Neale Donald Walsch. As a decade-long co-leader of SNS, Inc, I professionally endorse Patricia's books.
I have served youth and their adult leaders as a school principal, educational materials company owner and founder/owner of schools and after hours programs across the world. During my parenting and professional experience, I have seen few children's materials that bring the theme -- that we all have the Divine spark within us and we can make our dreams come true -- to life as clearly and with such ease as this GM/LM series. I believe in this new spirituality material so deeply that I volunteered and as stated above ultimately became an education leader of Neale Donald Walsch's CWG nonprofits. In the past decade our teams have developed numerous curricula materials and books that bring again, universal yet freshly new spirituality principles into daily life. To find a like-minded, like-hearted teacher such as Patricia, makes my heart sing - and our next generation(s) need all the books and hands-on discovery activities we can develop to bring this other fresh way of seeing God into reality now. And we all know how much creative guidance our children will need in the next decades.
It is beautiful and comforting to experience an active relationship with the Divine as choicemakers and creators with God of our dreams-come-true. The GM/LM series guides children and their families with skillful, playful fun into seeing God as our partner in life. Patricia masterfully brings story into easy living action that articulates in simple and easy-to-live ways how to create a deeply self-inspired AND Divine-inspired lifestyle. This kind of education is and will continue to change the world because it taps and allows the inherent gifts of our youth to come into new and unique form - new solutions to our humanity's ills!
As I see it and in the work I do with Patricia and beyond, it is time to move beyond the field of right and wrong-doing to an honoring of youth and ourselves. Judgment is no longer working for us as a species, as individual souls. The neverending frontier is within us all, and it is high time that we explore the Oneness we all have with the Divine. And I see this method of seeing God as a foundational way to create peace - from the inside and then out into the world through collaborations anew. Deeply knowing one's own power in concert with the Almighty and with those around us can and will always build a powerful creative consciousness that can forever be chockfull of love, joy, and wisdom. The GM/LM series brings this educational frontier to right into the laps of children and their families. Patricia's stories move our lives into the space beyond religion, a place where we may live peace and our own dreams-come-true together - every single day at every conscious choice we choose. How thrilling for us all!
I'd like to highlight in a concise summary, key principles that the Grand Master/Little Master books bring to life. These foundational beliefs hold inherent power which any parent, grandparent, teacher and all youth professionals may utilize in their work and play with young people to nurture and foster healthy, joyful, loving, honored-for-who-they-are souls:
- God is the All, not any one thing outside of us
- The Divine communicates with us and inside us all the time
- Look for the spark of Source/God, or goodness, in every living being.
- Love is all there is; look inside and see.
- True Love is unconditional, that is it remains without conditions.
- What you CAUSE in the world comes back to you, CAUSE something wonderful today
- Every minute has choice in it. Choose the best for the good of you and for the good of all.
- There is no right or wrong, life is - and we live, learn to love through it all
- Raising children with the belief that they are perfect, magnificent souls on earth will change the world - one healthy child at a time.
